Historic rout for Cong in Kerala

Rediff: "For the first time in Kerala's electoral history, the Congress party drew a complete blank in the Lok Sabha elections. Party nominees were drubbed in all 17 seats the Congress contested. The defeated candidates included five MPs of the outgoing 13th Lok Sabha, and high profile candidates such as senior leader K Karunakaran's daughter Padmaja Venugopal from Mukundapuram. Even in 1967, which ranked as the party's worst performance in a national election till date, the Congress had managed to win one seat. The humiliation for the three-year-old UDF government led by Chief Minister A K Antony was complete when State Electricity Minister K Muraleedharan lost the Wadakkancherry assembly seat in a grimly fought by-election."